Posts Tagged with ‘hi5’

It should be unstated by now that websites and media groups will never be free of torment from record labels and music protection groups.  In fact, I hardly give a moment's notice to "news" about some website or college student coming under prosecution from the RIAA or one of its many cronies. 
I am, however, keenly interested when a social network or media site comes under fire for user-created content.   Today I read that popular social network Hi5 is [...]

Web 2.0 has developed its own ecosystem, with application builders able to build their apps using mash-ups, AIR clients, and new apps on the backs of popular 2.0 apps already in wide distribution. Virtually every day we see announcements of new applications based on Twitter and FriendFeed and Google Reader, as well as Facebook apps, MySpace apps, and Hi5 apps. The real question, however, is what will happen to these companies and this ecosystem if one of the foundation companies [...]

Google’s finally let the cat out of the bag.
The company announced yesterday its intentions to create a project, dubbed OpenSocial (corresponding webpage is not active yet; Nov 1 is lauch day), very basically described to be a set of APIs, that will allow multiple platforms on the Web to play by a “universally” accepted common set of laws that will enable developers the option to “create applications that work on any social networks…that choose to participate.”
The reasoning for the [...]

By now, you can pretty much call it a necessity for a social network to offer a platform for developers to create applications for. First was Facebook, and now MySpace, LinkedIn, Hi5, and several others have joined the fray.
Friendster is the latest addition, having announced that it is working on the Friendster Developer Program. This set of APIs will be just like other offerings, allowing developers to build applications that can be inserted into the profiles of Friendster users, [...]

With all of the attention that the Facebook Platform has received, the latest rumor about about the new developer platform from social networking site Tagged has to be the most interesting… at least for developers.
Back in June, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussed his plans to offer a platform more like Facebook, followed by MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe expressing that ?the [Facebook] platform is interesting,? and announcing that MySpace will become more open to developers. Just yesterday, Hi5 also [...]

The launch of the Facebook Platform led to a massive increase in Facebook's user base, not to mention a slew of applications that developers are hoping will manage to generate some kind of revenue.
Since that launch, several other social networks, such as MySpace, Bebo and LinkedIn, have kept a watchful eye, with some making plans for their own development platforms.
Today, Hi5 looks to be the next social network to follow the example that Facebook has set, with their [...]

Tired of all the social networking news circulating the blogosphere? You’re not alone. There are lots of folks who can’t take the headlines about Facebook, MySpace and all the rest.
But the venture capitalist crowd feels the complete opposite.
Yes, they’re still very bullish, apparently. Very recently word filtered around that Hi5, a very popular and quickly expanding network due to increasing interest outside the US (Alexa now ranks the network as the 11th most popular site on the Internet) [...]

Warner Bros. has announced that it will now be offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on the social music site imeem.This is very interesting news considering the fact that, just two short months ago, Warner had announced that it was suing imeem, a site that allows its users to share music playlists and video clips.
In the suit, Warner accused imeem of building a user base by capitalizing on the “illegal use of free music,” when actually, [...]

Do you recall the point in time when the online world was up in arms over Google’s involvement in the censoring of information as it made its first venture into China? Of course you do. The rumors, the speculation, and the stories about the measures were front and center for a good few weeks. Those were stormy days for the company widely believed incapable of doing wrong. (The reputations of others were also tarnished a good deal for walking [...]